Jasper050 wrote:

I think (hope) it will be possible with the new 4.2 software for iPhone and iPad (later this week) to stream music to the Airport Express. Than the AE can be connected to the Beosound 8.

According to the manuel BS8 you can stream for sure from your Mac with the AE.

 

Jasper

 

Hello Jasper,

that would be fine if it works with Airplay and Airport Express without running ITunes on a PC!

So let´s wait and see until IOS 4.2 comes out probably this week....

/Räuber

I don't get it ... why is it such a big deal to have airplay?  The Airport Express solution is just fine if you ask me.  After all, you CAN control that using the remote app on the iPhone/iPad and it is your HOME (ie. fixed) music collection.  Airplay to me just seems like one of those things like PnP that is cool to have, cool to talk about but in the real world to the mass consumer probably wont get used a whole bunch.

Keep in mind also the BeoSound 8 is an IPOD DOCK.  I *guarantee* you there will remain a much larger iPod dock market even if Airplay does become pretty popular.

I don't really understand how people are going to use BeoSound 8: it is basically an active stereo loudspeaker with VERY limited remote control features: step up/down, volume up/down, and play/pause, and just one source: NMUSIC (which, believe it or not, is activated on Beo4 or Beo5 by pressing ...NRADIO?!).

If you are going to stream your music via USB, you are limited to 5 m as this it the USB standard limitation; this means BS8 should stay in the same room as your PC or Mac.

If you use the aux-input, you need your system to be close at hand for controlling it.

If you use an Airport Express via aux-in, same story: you get the audio playback from your PC or Mac, but how do you control the source?

Isn't it much easier to link the Airport Express to ANY BeoLab , use your Iphone or Ipad/Ipod as a 2-way remote control and disregard the BeoSound 8??🤔

Seems like the biggest shortcoming of the long awaited B&O iPod dock is that it is an iPod dock.

Alex,people want an integrated solution.

Minimal mains leads.

Minimal cables.

Not having to rely on a third party device [AE] to distribute content via a network.

I have an Airport Express and it limits where I can place a dock or whatever peripheral device.

I want to be able to plug and play,no connections,move the device relatively freely [within the constraints of the mains supply] move from room to room as required.

I want to control the BS8 via the B&O app on my phone/touch/pad wherever I am in the room and still do other things on the device.

Airplay offers this solution.

I am desperate to buy a great hi end dock [style,design,pride of ownership,build quality,flexible functionality and so on]

To spend nearly £1000 on a device that has so many limitations,when it needn't have, makes no sense to me  at all.

Which is why,begrudgingly,I won't be buying one.And I do want to buy one!

Reminds me of the ps3 controller, same design language. imo it looks good but not great, I hope no one hates me for this but the B&W zeppelin is still the best looking iPod dock (not that I care, I dont have an apple product).

Hi,

 I think I get on for our sleeping room.

AE connected to it and use the iPhone or iPod touch to controll my Mac to play the music.

Sascha

I just got a Sonos Ipod dock and it is very cool.  I can browse songs on my ipod from the Sonos controller, and play those songs in any zone.

tournedos wrote:

Seems like the biggest shortcoming of the long awaited B&O iPod dock is that it is an iPod dock.

Yep, and seems that some people simply doesn't read and the only thing that can say is "I want... I want... I want...". What the hell...

Anybody has thought that the iPod/iPhone/iPad is a music container and not really a remote?? What is the BS8: a speaker dock for iPod/iPhone/iPad, so why spend 1.000 € in a product that only has sense with an iPod/iPhone/iPad connected and not connect the device on the dock but control it with this iPod/iPhone/iPad (!!) as a remote?? I think this type of reasoning is simply madness and I also think that an iPod/iPhone/iPad is an expensive remote. 

Fortunately, there are a lot of people with real criteria that value the things for what they are and not for what they must be... These people will find in the BS8 a great dock for not only their iPod/iPhone/iPad but also for their wife's, their husband's, their kid's, their lover's, their neighbor's, ...

Denon receiver to get airplay update: